Lee Tergesen
Lee Tergesen
Lee Allen Tergesenis an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tobias Beecher in HBO's prison drama Oz and as Evan Wright in Generation Kill, as well as guest starring in many varied series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 July 1965
CountryUnited States of America
thinking cells people
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
crew intense knew people weird year
I knew how intense it was going to be. But as we started to make it - the first year - even crew people would say weird things to me.
class court
I'm the court jester, ... class clown, fool.
time
It's not the first time I had to get in drag, ... Oz.
definitely either great walking
Wow, she is definitely walking a line, and it's either going to be great or it's going to be like, 'What is she doing?'
I really don't feel like I'm being typecast,
coming concern maybe
I pretty much do what I like. There was a little concern when I first started the show from TNT that maybe I was a little too soft. They didn't really get where I was coming from, because I'm funny.
cannon course loose maybe playing quick somebody sort wind
He's sort of a loose cannon with a quick wit, ... He's somebody who of course is intense. I always wind up playing somebody a little intense. Maybe I'm just intense.
close definitely ended job material
I don't know if I'll ever have a job that, on so many levels, was so great, ... I was working with so many close friends, and the material was really juicy. I think we ended it at the right time, and I definitely look back fondly.
decided shut
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
both came true walk
But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
definitely
It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
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As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.
history training
We have history, because he was my training officer,